Select a text and perform a click action

Question

I'd like to select some text and perform a click action - like in Winword where we click Bold after selecting some text...

I have to select the text and click on the <B> bold icon in the textarea.

Any idea on how to do this using Selenium/Webdriver?

Harappa

How about sending Ctrl+B keys using driver.sendKeys()? – Araiza

AJ tnx for response But followig are my questions...1-the <B> button is on the browser iframe itself. Not from Keyboard. 2-And u did not mention how to select a text in selenium/webdriver. – Harappa

Here is the answer for qn 2. #7516883 – Araiza

Answer 1

In Java, The Advanced User Interactions API has your answer.

// the element containing the text
WebElement element = driver.findElement(By.id("text"));
// assuming driver is a well behaving WebDriver
Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
// and some variation of this:
actions.moveToElement(element, 10, 5)
    .clickAndHold()
    .moveByOffset(30, 0)
    .release()
    .perform();

Moss

Answer 2

I tried with Action builder and played with offset. It worked for me.

Actions action = new Actions(driver);
action.moveToElement(wblmt,3,3).click().keyDown(Keys.SHIFT).moveToElement(wblmt,200, 0).click().keyUp(Keys.SHIFT).build().perform(); 

Insupportable

Answer 3

driver.navigate().to("https://leafground.com/input.xhtml"); WebElement cls= driver.findElement(By.xpath("//div[@class="ql-editor ql-blank"]")); cls.sendKeys("this is rakshika " + Keys.CONTROL + "a"); driver.findElement(By.xpath("//button[@class="ql-italic"]\r\n")).click();

Zeller

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Answer 4

I tried this way and it did not work. Here are the codes:

System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:/chromedriver.exe");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("https://www.google.com.vn");
    driver.manage().window().maximize();

    WebElement text = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'Google.com.vn')]"));
    Actions actions = new Actions(driver);
    actions.moveToElement(text, 10, 5).clickAndHold().moveByOffset(30, 0).release().perform();

I switched to JavascriptExecutor and it worked:

    System.setProperty("webdriver.chrome.driver", "D:/chromedriver.exe");
    WebDriver driver = new ChromeDriver();
    driver.get("https://www.google.com.vn");
    driver.manage().window().maximize();

    WebElement text = driver.findElement(By.xpath("//*[contains(text(),'Google.com.vn')]"));
    JavascriptExecutor js = (JavascriptExecutor) driver;

    js.executeScript("arguments[0].setAttribute('style', 'background: blue;');", text);

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